0:00:02 > 0:00:06BBC Scotland's flagship drama River City is ten years old.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09Over the last decade, Scottish audiences have been treated
0:00:09 > 0:00:12to a veritable feast of Shieldinch shenanigans.
0:00:12 > 0:00:16This programme will look back and celebrate this unique, quirky
0:00:16 > 0:00:19and unashamedly Scottish product,
0:00:19 > 0:00:22marking this ten-year milestone and raising a glass
0:00:22 > 0:00:24to the good people of Shieldinch.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Happy Birthday, River City.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17Many's a twist and turn River City has taken in its young life,
0:01:17 > 0:01:18establishing household names,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22welcoming some of Scotland's showbiz legends into its fold
0:01:22 > 0:01:27and morphing into an hour-long drama with punchy, gritty storylines.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Let's go back to the very beginnings of River City
0:01:30 > 0:01:33or, as it was called then, the Scottish soap.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36It was kind of terrifying at the beginning.
0:01:36 > 0:01:40Joining River City on day one was nerve-racking.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43Everybody and their dug was being seen for a soap.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47Everyone was proud of the fact that BBC Scotland were making
0:01:47 > 0:01:51our own soap, that we were going to hear our own voices.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55There was a huge buzz from the first read-through to the first day
0:01:55 > 0:01:58on set, which was nerve-racking, but great fun.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01When I got the call to say you're auditioning for Shell Suit Bob
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I thought someone was kidding. It didn't sound like a real name.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07And everybody wanted a gig on River City, everyone did.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10BBC Scotland searched the length and breadth of the country
0:02:10 > 0:02:12looking for a suitable site.
0:02:12 > 0:02:17Very quickly, an old whisky bottling plant in Dumbarton became the frontrunner.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20The first time I came down here and actually came on set, I remember
0:02:20 > 0:02:24being completely blown away by how realistic the set looked.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28I think the set itself was inspirational
0:02:28 > 0:02:30and I'll never forget the day
0:02:30 > 0:02:32that Barbara McKissak invited us onto set
0:02:32 > 0:02:36and it was like, you turned a corner, crossed a puddle
0:02:36 > 0:02:38and you were in Partick!
0:02:38 > 0:02:41The preparation was over. It was time to start shooting.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46I was actually on the first day,
0:02:46 > 0:02:48the first scene that we ever started filming
0:02:48 > 0:02:55in June 2002, and I remember when they said, "Running up, turn over,"
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Barbara McKissak, the head of drama, burst into tears.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00I was incredibly emotional when it started.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03To actually get to this stage where we're turning over
0:03:03 > 0:03:06and we're now recording the new Scottish soap.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08It's just like a miracle.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14With the first episodes in the can, it was now time to show and tell.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18860,000 discerning Scottish viewers tuned in to get their first glimpse
0:03:18 > 0:03:20of life in Shieldinch.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25On Tuesday the 24th of September, 2002 at 7.30pm,
0:03:25 > 0:03:30River City went on air for the first time ever. Yikes!
0:03:30 > 0:03:34The show opened with Tommy Donachie and Eileen Hamilton's wedding.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36The wedding's off.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- We can't get married.- What?
0:03:38 > 0:03:40I actually can't think of Tommy and Eileen's wedding
0:03:40 > 0:03:43without a feeling of prickling horror,
0:03:43 > 0:03:47because I had the worst wedding outfit in the world on
0:03:47 > 0:03:52and my hair, I looked like Dandini from the pantomime,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56so I can't look at the photographs without thinking, "What was I wearing?!"
0:03:59 > 0:04:03# What's the use in sharing this one and only life?... #
0:04:03 > 0:04:07We sang at Eileen's wedding on the first episode.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09Gina, Ruth and I all got up to sing.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I cannot sing. I'm completely tone-deaf, so I'm standing there
0:04:13 > 0:04:16trying to mime and trying to follow them moving about.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21It was a great first episode because it introduced you to all the characters
0:04:21 > 0:04:25and all the different relationships and who was married to who.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27It wasn't something you felt was going to have to grow on you.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30Immediately you thought, "It's good, it's going somewhere."
0:04:30 > 0:04:34Very early on the three main families of the soap,
0:04:34 > 0:04:38the Donachies, the Rossis and the Hendersons, were established.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Through them and some colourful characters around them,
0:04:41 > 0:04:44the Shieldinch community was born.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Of course there were the three main families at the beginning
0:04:47 > 0:04:49of River City and I was what was called a satellite character,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52me and Shell Suite Bob, Stephen.
0:04:52 > 0:04:54It was a wee community
0:04:54 > 0:04:56and communities within communities as well.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Every good soap needs a good boozer
0:04:59 > 0:05:01and the Tall Ship Bar was quickly established
0:05:01 > 0:05:04as the heart of the soap, bringing together the old and the new.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09It gives me great pleasure to declare the Tall Ship Grill open.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17The stage was set for a whirlwind of births, deaths, marriages,
0:05:17 > 0:05:20double dealings, accidents and lots
0:05:20 > 0:05:24and lots of gallus Glasgow humour, which very quickly set the tone
0:05:24 > 0:05:26and captured the hearts of the Scottish nation.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30What there was was a real feeling of camaraderie.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34We were all in this together because no-one knew how it was going to turn out.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38It was about starting with this idea of new connections and hope.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41And we were all out on the set, popping the champagne bottles
0:05:41 > 0:05:43It was so exciting.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45It was such a new thing for Scotland.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48It was all, "We're young people and we've just started working
0:05:48 > 0:05:50"in Glasgow. It's exciting, the future will be great."
0:05:50 > 0:05:53To the future - bring it on!
0:05:53 > 0:05:54- ALL:- The future!
0:05:54 > 0:05:57You didn't know what was coming, but you knew it would be good.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03With the show on air, the Scottish public had to get used to hearing
0:06:03 > 0:06:07a concentration of their own voices on national TV.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Jo, hen. Sounds to me like she wants a tailor's dummy, no' Kate Moss.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14They now had a mirror held up to them
0:06:14 > 0:06:16and some found this a tricky reflection to embrace.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19A lot of folk really freaked out at first.
0:06:19 > 0:06:24I mean, folk would come up to you and go, "I cannae stand that, naebody talks like that."
0:06:24 > 0:06:27"What are the accents? Naebody's talking like that."
0:06:27 > 0:06:30- I just wanted to say, "You are talking- just- like that," you know.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32You could feel the tide turning
0:06:32 > 0:06:34and people starting to talk about characters.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39- What a thing to come back to. - Well, that's not all.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Lewis came round with a bunch of flowers.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43What kind?
0:06:43 > 0:06:45It doesn't matter what kind.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48You kind of realised that times are changing,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50people are taking them to their heart.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53I think it just found its feet very quickly
0:06:53 > 0:06:58and became a very watchable soap, up there with the best of them.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01I watched River City right from the very start.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I was so pleased that we were actually doing a Scottish drama
0:07:04 > 0:07:07and I was hooked right away, and I've been a fan ever since.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12I became a fan and I have remained hooked to the programme ever since.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15I loved it from day one, because it's really authentic.
0:07:15 > 0:07:20It's people speaking to us in our own accents and in our own language.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22It's five o'clock, I thought yous were finished!
0:07:22 > 0:07:24This was new, it was fresh
0:07:24 > 0:07:27and it was speaking about the kind of modern Scotland
0:07:27 > 0:07:28and modern Glasgow.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32We had been used to High Road and something that was very, very twee
0:07:32 > 0:07:36and, of course, when River City came on the scene, it had tenement buildings, you know,
0:07:36 > 0:07:40it had young people in it. You know, they spoke with a Glaswegian accent.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43I'm fae Glesga. We take pride in the fact that naebody understonds us.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47And there were early signs of a young star emerging.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Who could ever have predicted the impact that Shell Suit Bob
0:07:51 > 0:07:54was going to have on the Scottish viewers?
0:07:54 > 0:07:56You know, if you want anything else out of there,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59trainers of whatever, the security guy's useless.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03Shell Suit Bob, what can you say? He's just... He's just...
0:08:03 > 0:08:05You can't imagine River City without him.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Shell Suit Bob's an institution.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Shell Suit Bob doesn't wear a shell suit, of course.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12He was the guy to go to for your shell suits.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14I never really wore shell suits a lot.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16I think I had a couple of shell suits
0:08:16 > 0:08:19and I think my whole thing was just stealing shell suits
0:08:19 > 0:08:22out of shops, I think, and the name just stuck
0:08:22 > 0:08:24and it's never left me since.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30And a certain torry quine, Roisin McIntyre, played by Joyce Falconer,
0:08:30 > 0:08:32burst onto our screens with the line...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34"You've got a face that would turn the milk."
0:08:34 > 0:08:38Roisin had a meteoric rise to becoming the voice of the show,
0:08:38 > 0:08:40with everyone asking, "Does she really talk like that?"
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Why nae hae a go on one of your own sunbeds?
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Get a bit of colour about you!
0:08:45 > 0:08:49The main reason folk noticed my character
0:08:49 > 0:08:51was, of course, the way I speak.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Excuse me, do you mind talking properly?
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Roisin was just speaking in dialect
0:08:57 > 0:09:02and I mean, speaking the way that a lot of folk in Scotland do speak,
0:09:02 > 0:09:05but they're so unused to seeing it on a square box.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08No need to apologise, I'm happy to do that for free.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12There were also strong signs of a strong, platonic friendship
0:09:12 > 0:09:14in Scott and Ruth.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17Scott and Ruth were a romance in the sense
0:09:17 > 0:09:20that they just loved each other so much.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Scott and Ruth were intrinsically linked from day one
0:09:24 > 0:09:30and so we went on a complete and utter rollercoaster for nine years.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Oh!
0:09:31 > 0:09:34The casting net was flung far and wide.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38New colourful characters and familiar faces from Scottish showbiz
0:09:38 > 0:09:42started to pour into Shieldinch in their droves.
0:09:42 > 0:09:47Casting was mammoth. You can imagine, we went everywhere.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49I mean, let's face it, we went to Neighbours.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53- Is this a private party or can anyone join in?- Come in.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55I did a reading. They went, "Great, great,"
0:09:55 > 0:09:57and then the next minute I was on a plane to Scotland.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Deacon Blue's very own Lorraine McIntosh arrived
0:10:00 > 0:10:04in Shieldinch. Alice Henderson was looking to reconnect
0:10:04 > 0:10:07with her long lost son Deek.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10I actually joined, I think it was about three months,
0:10:10 > 0:10:13maybe two-and-a-half months into it. So I got a chance to see it
0:10:13 > 0:10:16on screen and kind of see a bit of what I was coming into.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18After bonding with Deek,
0:10:18 > 0:10:21reformed alcoholic Alice soon fell off the wagon
0:10:21 > 0:10:24and there was a rocky road ahead.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27Why don't you do us all a favour and put a sock in it?
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Shell Suit Bob needed a family. First up, his beloved mammie.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Enter Scarlett Adams and her ice cream van.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I'll never forget the first time I saw Scarlett in her van.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40She jumped out the van
0:10:40 > 0:10:43and was basically was ready for a punch-up, you know.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46She was scary. You didn't know what would get with her.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Scarlett Adams, a woman with a sharp tongue,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52razor-sharp wit, and a tigress when it comes to her cubs.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Robert Adams, get back here right now!
0:10:59 > 0:11:02Ashamed of me or something? Me and you're ma, too!
0:11:02 > 0:11:04I'd come to reclaim my son
0:11:04 > 0:11:07because I know he was living rough and then he was hanging out
0:11:07 > 0:11:09with Deek Henderson kind of thing,
0:11:09 > 0:11:12and I was wanting him to come back into the family business,
0:11:12 > 0:11:13and basically, when she turns up
0:11:13 > 0:11:16looking for him, he's absolutely mortified.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Shell Suit also needed a sister. Enter Kelly-Marie.
0:11:20 > 0:11:24My big entrance to the show was a big articulated lorry
0:11:24 > 0:11:25and I tottered down the stairs
0:11:25 > 0:11:28and all you seen was these legs and this wee skirt.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- Thanks! This is great. - HORN TOOTS
0:11:32 > 0:11:36And as I walked off, I just picked the knickers out the bum. Classy!
0:11:36 > 0:11:39My classy entrance!
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Even a gay brother arrived, but more about him later.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46- Stevie!- I caught him breaking in!
0:11:46 > 0:11:48Don't listen to them, they're talkin' mince!
0:11:48 > 0:11:53Latterly, wee Bob's been given an uncle in the form of Big Bob,
0:11:53 > 0:11:56arriving in Shieldinch, as you do, in a tomato suit.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Out my road! Come on, get out my road!
0:11:59 > 0:12:01And then Granny Molly arrived on her mobility scooter.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Molly O'Hara, Scarlett's mum, bold as brass
0:12:04 > 0:12:07and ready to give anyone a tongue lashing if they stood in her way.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- Out my way!- What do you want?
0:12:10 > 0:12:11Oh! Oh, Scarlett.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13I mean, it didn't go all that fast,
0:12:13 > 0:12:19but touching reverse by mistake and suddenly you're away!
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Aye, right(!) What did you do to deserve it?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24That's no way to speak to your mother!
0:12:24 > 0:12:27I never honestly, honestly thought I would be in a soap,
0:12:27 > 0:12:30and I'll tell you something, I didn't think I'd still be in it.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34I was just assuming it would be for a few episodes.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38Scarlett met a good man in Jimmy Mullen, and the Adams-Mullens were born,
0:12:38 > 0:12:42forming the backbone of the Shieldinch community.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45We're the family in Shieldinch who have probably got the least money
0:12:45 > 0:12:49and probably the most working-class family in the show
0:12:49 > 0:12:54and we represent that, and I think a lot of people identify with that.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58The esteemed lawyer Archie Buchanan arrived home to Shieldinch,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01rapidly followed by his very posh mother Liz Buchanan,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04played by soap royalty Eileen McCallum.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08So she's invited to Gina's for dinner
0:13:08 > 0:13:11and that was the first scene, and it was hysterically funny.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16Very...exotic.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19- Mother!- What? I said he was cute.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23Glam hairdresser Shirley arrived,
0:13:23 > 0:13:24played by Barbara Rafferty
0:13:24 > 0:13:27and became the boss of salon Moda Vida.
0:13:27 > 0:13:33Coming into the show was a mixture of fear...
0:13:33 > 0:13:35and excitement.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Very quickly, Shirley became a resident feature
0:13:37 > 0:13:40of one of the three main families.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44To become one of the big families of the community was fantastic.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Heather Bellshaw burst onto our screens.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Sexy Heather, always in killer heels, made her mark
0:13:50 > 0:13:53on the Shieldinch community in more ways than one.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57Coming into River City or trying to get into River City was
0:13:57 > 0:13:59'a big deal for me.' Why's Kelly here?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- I needed the help.- Right, fine.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04But I do the hiring and firing round here - not you.
0:14:04 > 0:14:09She was fierce, in the true sense of the word.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13And the bad boy of all bad boys, Lenny Murdoch
0:14:13 > 0:14:15and his gangster's moll Lydia, brought glamour
0:14:15 > 0:14:19and grit to the show, proving an instant hit with the audience,
0:14:19 > 0:14:21shortly after to be joined by a rebel of a daughter
0:14:21 > 0:14:23and two brothers from a previous marriage.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28Roisin was later joined by her two sisters, Iona and Shona
0:14:28 > 0:14:30and her long-lost daughter Alana.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33The one thing these McIntyre sisters shared,
0:14:33 > 0:14:35hellish luck when it came to men.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39Shieldinch had its full complement on board with a cast bursting
0:14:39 > 0:14:44at the seams. Yeah, you've guessed it - a hotbed for lust and romance.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49Everyone loves a good love story,
0:14:49 > 0:14:51and after lots of flirting over the sunbeds,
0:14:51 > 0:14:57employer and employee Raymond and Roisin finally got it together.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00It was very much a love/hate relationship with Raymond.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Roisin was constantly putting him down.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08- You're sick. - Aye, sick of your moaning.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10So sack me, then.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13But of course he was head employer, so he could have sacked her
0:15:13 > 0:15:16at any time, but he must have liked the abuse, I think.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20She'd just, you know, take control. That was me,
0:15:20 > 0:15:23and I was quite happy to let her do that. It's safer that way!
0:15:24 > 0:15:27So...what is your type, then?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30He had remembered that she'd liked these...
0:15:30 > 0:15:33throwback, '80s white jeans that he'd had.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Which, I hasten to add, do nothing for me at all.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40And then she came back to the Lazy Ray's
0:15:40 > 0:15:44and there was Raymondo in all his glory with the white denims on.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48He said, "Press play," and it's Proclaimers and Sunshine On Leith.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Which is a personal favourite of mine.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06And that was the moment that they realised
0:16:06 > 0:16:07that they were for each other.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11They went on to get married in one of the most flamboyant
0:16:11 > 0:16:14wedding ceremonies Shieldinch has ever witnessed.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17There have been so many weddings, and almost all of them
0:16:17 > 0:16:19have happened in the Tall Ship.
0:16:19 > 0:16:25I remember the huge big Las Vegas love heart above Raymond and Roisin,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27and it was just fantastic.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31And it was a real Footballers Wives type wedding.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34I, Roisin McIntyre,
0:16:34 > 0:16:37want to take you, Raymond Henderson,
0:16:37 > 0:16:39as my husband
0:16:39 > 0:16:42because you love me for the person I am.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44MUSIC: "Love Really Hurts Without You"
0:16:44 > 0:16:48I'd now like to read a bit from my favourite book Wuthering Heights.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53I now pronounce you husband and wife.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58This is the bit when you kiss.
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Excellent!
0:16:59 > 0:17:01CHEERING
0:17:01 > 0:17:05From a flamboyant wedding to a flamboyant wedding dress.
0:17:05 > 0:17:10Who could forget that leopard skinned, fluffy pink number that Scarlett Adams wore
0:17:10 > 0:17:13in her ostentatious wedding to Jimmy Mullen?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16I must say, I had the most fantastic dress known to man or woman.
0:17:16 > 0:17:22I had a leopard-skin, fishtail dress with kind of pink, flowery bolero.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Jimmy, still recovering from his dramatic hit-and-run accident,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29made a sterling effort and even ditched the wheelchair.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32So he was on the sticks and they had their first dance together
0:17:32 > 0:17:35and Jimmy's like Douglas Bader, sort of going about the dance floor.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- Oh, my goodness!- Jimmy was just out the wheelchair. Oh, dear.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40It was those sticks.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44Scarlett Bernadette Adams and you, James Leslie Mullen,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47are now husband and wife.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49APPLAUSE
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Now why stop at one sister when you can have two?
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Years later, Raymond married Roisin's sister Shona.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00Only one slight problem - she was still married to someone else.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Never that lucky in love, wee Shell Suit Bob should get a medal
0:18:05 > 0:18:08for his attempts to get hitched with all his proposals.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Proposal number one, Zara Malik.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13Er, cherry picker.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Take me to Planet Love, Captain Henderson.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18So he thought "Come on," to Deek,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20"you can put me up in the cherry picker,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23"so I can go up to her window and propose." Young love.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27# I will be...
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- # With you... # - Ssh!
0:18:30 > 0:18:34Zara, hen, every time I see you I feel the voltage has been turned up in my socks!
0:18:36 > 0:18:39The things starts going back and forward, up and down.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43- Eh?- I pure love you!
0:18:43 > 0:18:47He's reaching out to give her the ring and I'm mucking about
0:18:47 > 0:18:51with the leavers and pulling him further away
0:18:51 > 0:18:52and the gap's getting bigger.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Going to hurry up, Zara? My arm's kind of sore here!
0:18:56 > 0:19:00It was ridiculous. It was good fun. It was a funny scene.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Proposal number two - Michelle.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I want us to get married...
0:19:05 > 0:19:08I mean, I got it out the cracker. I didn't have time to go to the shops.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12I'll get you a better one. Ones with diamond and all that, I promise.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Proposal number three was Charlie Drummond.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20- That looked like the perfect match. - I'm so, so...
0:19:22 > 0:19:26Charlie jilted him at the altar, so that was quite a sore one for him.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27Charlie!
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Proposal number four was a semi proposal,
0:19:31 > 0:19:34it wasnae a full-blown proposal. It was Nicki Cullen.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Marry me. Please.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Give me the rest of our lives to make it up to you.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44She was just about to leave and Bob went to propose
0:19:44 > 0:19:47but she just left. Again, Bob failed miserably.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51All he really needed was for someone to pop the question to him
0:19:51 > 0:19:54and voila, you have a wedding.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Will you marry me, Bob Adams?
0:19:56 > 0:19:59CHRISTMAS CAROLLERS SING
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Of course I will.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03CHEERING
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Well, a wedding of sorts.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07They did it on the QT, fooled everyone
0:20:07 > 0:20:11inviting them to a quiz night, of all things, which actually turned out
0:20:11 > 0:20:14to be their own wedding party, without any help or input
0:20:14 > 0:20:15from Scarlett,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18which, as you can imagine, when down like a lead balloon.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24Slapping Bob at the venue, I've always felt it was out of love.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Are you happy now?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32After arriving as the glam older hairdresser and merry widow,
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Shirley married her love George Henderson,
0:20:35 > 0:20:39a bittersweet moment as George was not a well man.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43George was already terminally ill
0:20:43 > 0:20:46and they make this hugely romantic, loving gesture
0:20:46 > 0:20:48that they were still going to get married.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51I'll always remember how much you mean to me.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55It was a beautiful wedding
0:20:55 > 0:20:59and it was very emotional, because we knew George wasn't well.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03APPLAUSE
0:21:03 > 0:21:06It was beautiful. I remember it clearly.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Then the lovely Gina Rossi eventually tied the knot
0:21:09 > 0:21:12with the not-so-lovely Archie Buchanan,
0:21:12 > 0:21:15becoming the new Mrs Buchanan of Shieldinch.
0:21:15 > 0:21:19I'm going to be the next Mrs Buchanan.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Gina should never have married Archie and she knew that,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26and Liz came to her and said to her, "He's not good man."
0:21:26 > 0:21:28On her wedding day, mind you.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30The wedding, I think you should call it off.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34- You are kidding?- No, I'm not.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37You see, I don't believe that Archie will make you happy.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40Oh, Gina, you should have taken Liz's advice.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43A mother always knows her own son, good and bad.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48And in this case, it was bad. Really bad.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51He did want to marry her, I do believe he was fond of her.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53- You're- fond- of her?
0:21:53 > 0:21:56So that's what you have to offer, is it? Fondness?
0:21:56 > 0:21:59The bad seed that was in his father
0:21:59 > 0:22:04had obviously been inherited by him.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06You're every inch the swine he was.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09And if that girl's going to have any chance of happiness,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11you better love her, Archie.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13At least as much as your father loved me.
0:22:13 > 0:22:18The wedding goes ahead with disastrous, disastrous results.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23It's not too late. We can leg it out of here.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25I'll be right behind you.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30The audience all knew she shouldn't have married Archie.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32I'm sure the whole of Shieldinch knew.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35But at the end, as everybody knows,
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Archie was just out for whatever he could get from it.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41And a certain famous face from daytime TV
0:22:41 > 0:22:44got to witness the nuptials first-hand.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47- It's you, isn't it? - Last time I looked.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Long-time friend of hairdresser Billy Davies,
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Lorraine Kelly was in Shieldinch to visit her mum.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Is that who I think it is?!
0:22:55 > 0:22:58I was so delighted to be asked to be part of River City
0:22:58 > 0:23:01cos it was kind of like crawling into my TV set, it was amazing.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Excuse me. It's you, isn't it? I'm Scarlett.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- I'm a pal of Billy and Joanne's. - Lovely to meet you, Scarlett.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Being on set was fantastic
0:23:10 > 0:23:13and surrounded by all these characters that I knew so well.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16- Is she coming to the wedding? - No, she's not.- Oh, go on,
0:23:16 > 0:23:20- Gina's my mate, she pure loves you, by the way.- Does she?- Aye. Tell her!
0:23:20 > 0:23:22She would be tickled pink.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Maybe I'll pop in for five minutes once I've seen my mum.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27When I heard Lorraine Kelly would be at Gina's wedding,
0:23:27 > 0:23:29it was just so exciting because we also knew
0:23:29 > 0:23:32that Lorraine Kelly was genuinely a big fan of River City
0:23:32 > 0:23:36- so it was a big mutual appreciation society.- Hello!
0:23:37 > 0:23:39Oh, my God.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43Gina, this is an old school friend, this is Lorraine.
0:23:43 > 0:23:47- Gina. Gina, Lorraine.- It's lovely to meet you, and congratulations.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49It was quite nerve-wracking cos I'm not an actress
0:23:49 > 0:23:53and I know it wasn't much of a stretch cos I was playing myself, but it was still quite scary
0:23:53 > 0:23:56and I was really worried I would forget my lines.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58We had this brilliant bit where we meet each other
0:23:58 > 0:24:01and I'm reminding myself, "This is Gina meeting Lorraine, not Libby!"
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Have you had anything to eat? There's sausage rolls,
0:24:03 > 0:24:06- they're lovely. I made them myself.- Mum!
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Such good scenes, because she steals the sausage rolls in her handbag
0:24:09 > 0:24:11and Gina was really proud, cos she'd made them.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15Everyone was so great, they all made me so welcome.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19The atmosphere was fantastic. It was just like a big family
0:24:19 > 0:24:22and they just, you know, they made it so, so easy for me
0:24:22 > 0:24:25and I thought it was great and, like I say, just being able to be part
0:24:25 > 0:24:29of a show that I love was really a very, very special moment for me.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31But there wasn't a dry eye in the house
0:24:31 > 0:24:37when two of Scotland's showbiz legends, in the guise of Malcolm Hamilton and Liz Buchanan
0:24:37 > 0:24:40demonstrated their love for each other in front of all to see.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44With the shadow of a dementia diagnosis hanging over him,
0:24:44 > 0:24:48Malcolm asked his treasured Liz for her hand in marriage.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Are...
0:24:49 > 0:24:52Are you asking me to marry you?
0:24:52 > 0:24:54Oh, you're quick on the uptake.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Oh...
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Malcolm.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Get your hankies at the ready.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02This really was the wedding of the season.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Never doubt...
0:25:04 > 0:25:06I love...
0:25:08 > 0:25:11We got halfway through the ceremony
0:25:11 > 0:25:15and Malcolm forgot my name.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20I, Malcolm Hamilton...
0:25:21 > 0:25:23..take, take...
0:25:25 > 0:25:27There was this awful pause, you know,
0:25:27 > 0:25:30and Liz just seemed to know what to do.
0:25:32 > 0:25:33Look at me, Malcolm.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46..take you, Elizabeth Buchanan,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48to be my lawful, wedded wife.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57Ach, I've never needed a piece of paper to tell me how I feel.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00- I'm not going to start now. - LAUGHTER
0:26:00 > 0:26:04He never needed a script to tell someone that he loved them.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07I think Johnny handled that beautifully,
0:26:07 > 0:26:08I loved the wedding episode.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10It was a fantastic storyline for us
0:26:10 > 0:26:14and it was wonderful to take these two folk up to Loch Lomondside,
0:26:14 > 0:26:17this beautiful Scottish setting, and make it a real emotional wedding.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21It was a joy to do actually, I really enjoyed it.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24My mind may be playing up,
0:26:24 > 0:26:26but my heart's as strong as ever.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30And I love you with my whole heart.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32'She's such a pleasure to work with.'
0:26:32 > 0:26:34She's a remarkable lady,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37an absolutely remarkable lady.
0:26:37 > 0:26:38Everybody adored that storyline,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41we had huge feedback about how wonderful it was.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44I cried a tear at the wedding of Liz and Malcolm.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47'When River City plays that kind of storyline'
0:26:47 > 0:26:51when it's getting right into the heart of humanity,
0:26:51 > 0:26:53'that's when it really connects with people.'
0:26:53 > 0:26:57Eileen McCallum and Johnny Beattie reflect the best of acting talent.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01Of all the weddings we've seen over the ten years in River City,
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Malcolm and Liz, for me, has got to be up there, probably number one.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08They're part of our heritage, giving the performances of their lives
0:27:08 > 0:27:11at that stage in their career. What a joy.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15Where there's wedding bells, the stork is often not too far away,
0:27:15 > 0:27:18or in soap land, it's de rigueur to do it the other way around.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21River City has had its fair share of weans claiming Shieldinch
0:27:21 > 0:27:24literally as their rightful birthplace.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27First of all we witnessed four generations in the one close,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30as Gina's daughter Joanne gave birth to wee Franco on the stair landing.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- Mum, mum...- Oh, Joanne.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37It's so sore, Mum!
0:27:38 > 0:27:40OK, OK.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Here we go. One, two, three...
0:27:43 > 0:27:46I felt as if I was giving birth and I always remember walking away
0:27:46 > 0:27:49at the end of it thinking, "I'm never giving birth."
0:27:49 > 0:27:52- Come on! Come on! - SHE SCREAMS
0:27:54 > 0:27:57"Push! Push!"
0:27:57 > 0:28:00And this massive baby appearing.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03THEY LAUGH EXCITEDLY
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Oh, my goodness, he's a big boy.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Next up was Scarlett going into labour in the Oyster Cafe
0:28:14 > 0:28:16- on Christmas Day. - PANTING
0:28:16 > 0:28:19- Are you all right? - No, Jimmy, I'm having a wean.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23- I know that.- No, what I mean is, I'm having a wean the now.
0:28:23 > 0:28:27"Jimmy, I'm having a wean!" He goes, "I know you're having a wean,"
0:28:27 > 0:28:29"No, but I'm having it right now!"
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Jimmy, pull over! It's coming!
0:28:32 > 0:28:37- You're going to have to hang on. - I cannae! I mean it! Stop!
0:28:37 > 0:28:40- Hang on, Scarlett, we'll be there in a couple of minutes.- Aaah!
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Scarlett's getting swung round
0:28:42 > 0:28:46all the corners and eventually ends up on the floor of the taxi
0:28:46 > 0:28:48and Jimmy comes in, and the next minute - pop.
0:28:48 > 0:28:49SHE SCREAMS
0:28:49 > 0:28:52MUSIC: "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
0:28:54 > 0:28:56BABY CRYING
0:28:56 > 0:28:57A wee lassie.
0:28:59 > 0:29:00A beautiful wee lassie.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03Have you thought of a name yet?
0:29:05 > 0:29:06How about wee Madonna?
0:29:08 > 0:29:10She sounds like a wee Madonna.
0:29:10 > 0:29:14This is why it was such an amazing Christmas Day episode,
0:29:14 > 0:29:17because it's Madonna, the baby's name, it's Christmas Day,
0:29:17 > 0:29:20she's been born in a taxi. It was TV gold.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22That's exactly what you want to watch on Christmas Day.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Even Eileen got in on the act
0:29:24 > 0:29:27with a late baby to her original husband Raymond.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Poor Eileen had locked herself in the toilet above the Tall Ship
0:29:30 > 0:29:33and yes, you've guessed it, went into labour, again on Christmas Day.
0:29:33 > 0:29:35Well, don't just stand there!
0:29:35 > 0:29:39Right, come on, it's going to be all right. Let's get you up.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41Don't talk to me in that namby-pamby voice.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44She doesn't want to hear that nice, reasonable, "keep breathing" person,
0:29:44 > 0:29:47she wants everyone to do what she wants them to do right now!
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Raymond, get me to the hospital. Now.
0:29:49 > 0:29:53After all that high drama, baby Stuart arrived safe and sound,
0:29:53 > 0:29:56Eileen and Raymond's third child together.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00We've had two Christmas babies, wee Madonna and baby Stuie.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02Having a baby should be joy and happiness,
0:30:02 > 0:30:06but for Ruth, it brought her back to a familiar dark path
0:30:06 > 0:30:08of madness and paranoia.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11After a horrendous fallout with yours truly,
0:30:11 > 0:30:13feeling alone and dejected,
0:30:13 > 0:30:15poor Ruth went into labour all on her own.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20She was in the flat all alone in the darkness
0:30:20 > 0:30:22and went into labour
0:30:22 > 0:30:24and just completely ignored it.
0:30:24 > 0:30:29I think that was the start of her complete breakdown, I suppose.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31TV ON
0:30:36 > 0:30:38SHE WEEPS
0:30:38 > 0:30:42I think she was kind of detached from reality at that point
0:30:42 > 0:30:46and went through the whole agonising labour on her own.
0:30:46 > 0:30:50Neighbour Shirley Henderson heard the commotion and raised the alarm.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53- Anything?- No, nothing. We've phoned, we've called through.
0:30:55 > 0:30:56Ruth.
0:30:56 > 0:30:59- Ruth!- Ruth! It's Shirley!
0:30:59 > 0:31:00Oh!
0:31:00 > 0:31:03And there they found Ruth
0:31:03 > 0:31:07in what can only be described as a catatonic state,
0:31:07 > 0:31:08half on the couch, half on the floor.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12There was just a mess everywhere and then Shirley looked over...
0:31:12 > 0:31:13Scott.
0:31:13 > 0:31:17..and there was a little baby and the episode ended.
0:31:17 > 0:31:22Was it a foetus, was the baby alive or what?
0:31:22 > 0:31:24Very dramatic.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28Oh, poor Ruth, beautifully played by Morag Calder over the years,
0:31:28 > 0:31:31Ruth swung in and out of her borderline personality disorder
0:31:31 > 0:31:34with monotonous regularity, and the results were horrific.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40No-one was immune from Ruth's fury,
0:31:40 > 0:31:42especially her sister. And when she blew her top
0:31:42 > 0:31:44and you got in her way, look out.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51I had massive padding on
0:31:51 > 0:31:54so that Morag, the actress playing Ruth,
0:31:54 > 0:31:57could really go to town kicking me.
0:31:57 > 0:32:01I think Morag was probably taking out a bit of frustration
0:32:01 > 0:32:04out on me as well when she was giving me those wee kicks.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09She even pushed her own mother down the stairs.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11You bitch!
0:32:11 > 0:32:13You've ruined everything for me!
0:32:13 > 0:32:18She's white with rage and she just launches her mother,
0:32:18 > 0:32:20launches her mother down the stairs.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24Ruth!
0:32:26 > 0:32:30I always remember that and Gina just lying at the bottom, motionless.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32I didn't know if she was dead or not.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34Gina did make a full recovery
0:32:34 > 0:32:37but years later when Ruth found out that her good husband Marty
0:32:37 > 0:32:39had been playing around with Iona,
0:32:39 > 0:32:44all hell broke loose, and Iona was right in the firing line.
0:32:44 > 0:32:49Iona was trying to apologise, so she comes walking up and Ruth's outside
0:32:49 > 0:32:53the Portakabin and Ruth, to be fair, gave her quite a few warnings,
0:32:53 > 0:32:57you know, "Shut up, don't talk to me." Because Iona was behind Ruth,
0:32:57 > 0:33:00she didn't see the look in her eyes which should have warned her.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Will you shut up?!
0:33:02 > 0:33:05IONA SCREAMS
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Ruth, no!
0:33:08 > 0:33:11That's for the baby. Don't you ever, ever...
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Stop it, you're going to kill her!
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Ruth, stop this!
0:33:15 > 0:33:17Iona!
0:33:17 > 0:33:20Oh, darling, that's not the answer!
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Somebody phone an ambulance.
0:33:22 > 0:33:23Now!
0:33:23 > 0:33:25She did get quite crazy...
0:33:25 > 0:33:27She did get...and violent.
0:33:27 > 0:33:32After much heartache and grief, Ruth eventually was diagnosed.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38Ruth was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder,
0:33:38 > 0:33:40but she could also have periods where
0:33:40 > 0:33:43she had long spells of normality and things were OK for her.
0:33:43 > 0:33:47All of Ruth's mental instability culminated
0:33:47 > 0:33:50in her daughter Eilidh being taken away from her.
0:33:50 > 0:33:55What followed was a sterling performance with a huge impact.
0:33:55 > 0:33:57I won't let you take my baby.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Ruth, darling, nobody wants to take Eilidh away from you.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Yes, you do, I heard you. Don't lie.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05Ruth, we just want to get her back to the hospital.
0:34:05 > 0:34:06Come on, darling, please.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09I won't let you take her.
0:34:10 > 0:34:15- She's going to go in the water! - Ruth!- No! No, don't take my baby!
0:34:15 > 0:34:16Mummy!
0:34:16 > 0:34:20- No, don't take my baby!- It's OK.- No!
0:34:22 > 0:34:24Ruth was finally sectioned.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28Even her close family couldn't protect her from herself any more.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30We thought it would be for the best...
0:34:30 > 0:34:33if you went into hospital.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36What?
0:34:36 > 0:34:39I felt so sorry for her at that point,
0:34:39 > 0:34:41and then, of course, being taken to the hospital
0:34:41 > 0:34:44and being left in a room on her own,
0:34:44 > 0:34:48and it was just...her world was broken. Completely.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54And that was an incredible episode because it just ends
0:34:54 > 0:34:58on a close-up of the eyes and I think everyone just felt for her.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01The madness in Shieldinch was never far from the surface.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05Sometimes characters were just incandescent with rage
0:35:05 > 0:35:06and derangement.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08The only way to vent their frustrations,
0:35:08 > 0:35:12take their friends and family hostage! It is drama, after all.
0:35:12 > 0:35:15Some incredible tense moments have been captured over the years
0:35:15 > 0:35:20- with sterling performances from the actors involved.- Run, Nicki!
0:35:20 > 0:35:23Any good drama worth its salt needs a healthy doze of deceit,
0:35:23 > 0:35:25affairs and betrayals.
0:35:25 > 0:35:29They really are a basic ingredient. River City had them all.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33Sprinkle on top some beautiful performances and you're on to a winner.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36Now who would have thought that Paul Robinson from Neighbours
0:35:36 > 0:35:39could be an evil rapist? Not long after his arrival
0:35:39 > 0:35:42in Shieldinch, the paediatrician doctor Marcus McKenzie,
0:35:42 > 0:35:45played by Stefan Dennis, started to wreak havoc.
0:35:45 > 0:35:49The audience in the beginning thought, "Oh, Gina's finally found
0:35:49 > 0:35:52"somebody nice, she's got on the right track, a doctor,"
0:35:52 > 0:35:56and all of this, but he had this vile streak beneath.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Marcus finally showed his true colours
0:35:59 > 0:36:03and poor Gina got a dreadful birthday shock.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04Marcus, don't!
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Covering his tracks well, the good doctor - I use the term loosely -
0:36:12 > 0:36:15started a love affair with Heather Bellshaw.
0:36:15 > 0:36:21He was a very horrible man who raped Gina, had a wee pop at Ruth
0:36:21 > 0:36:24and then set his sights on Heather - silly man.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28But mud sticks, and the rape accusation wouldn't go away.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32Ultimately, this conniving Aussie picked the wrong girl
0:36:32 > 0:36:34to tussle with.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36Watch this space.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39Now, it's complicated, so stay with me.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42Hairstylist Billy Davies was married to Della, Shirley's daughter.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44They came back from Spain to run Moda Vida.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46He then started an affair
0:36:46 > 0:36:49with Joanne, who wasn't exactly whiter than white.
0:36:49 > 0:36:52She had started seeing Luca, a gorgeous Italian,
0:36:52 > 0:36:57Franco's long-lost son - yes, that's right, her half-brother. Or was he?
0:36:57 > 0:37:00At the eleventh hour, she found out he wasn't her half-brother at all.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04The romance flourished, Joanne got pregnant
0:37:04 > 0:37:07and you've guessed it, Billy thought he was the father.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Wrong, Billy! It was Luca.
0:37:09 > 0:37:14Billy, of course, found out about this betrayal and went off his head.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19- You're a tramp!- No, Billy.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21You're a tramp.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24- A disgusting, sick tramp.- No!- No?
0:37:24 > 0:37:28What bit? Cos you slept with your brother. That's quite sick, isn't it?
0:37:28 > 0:37:30No, you don't understand!
0:37:30 > 0:37:33All of this boiled over in a showdown in Billy and Della's flat.
0:37:33 > 0:37:37- Where are they? I said where are they?!- Get out of here!
0:37:37 > 0:37:40- I'm not leaving without my son. - GINA SCREAMS
0:37:40 > 0:37:43- Do you want to tell her? Or will I? - Please don't do this.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45What did Luca mean about his son?
0:37:45 > 0:37:46Luca's just been punched
0:37:46 > 0:37:50so Gina goes straight into her, "Oh, my Luca,"
0:37:50 > 0:37:52and wants to dab up the blood
0:37:52 > 0:37:57and look after Luca, and within the same split second
0:37:57 > 0:38:00she finds out that Luca and Jo have been getting down.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02My baby, Mum...
0:38:03 > 0:38:05..Billy's not the father.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08So who is, then?
0:38:14 > 0:38:16I do remember actually turning round to look at him
0:38:16 > 0:38:20and having my hands on him and then that kind of, you know,
0:38:20 > 0:38:23not thought-through thing, but just kind of, you know,
0:38:23 > 0:38:25I don't even know if I pushed him a bit.
0:38:25 > 0:38:30Joanne left with Luca, Romeo and Franco into the Italian sunset.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33And poor Billy was left greetin' his eyes out.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37He thought it was just going to be a wonderful life and...
0:38:37 > 0:38:39IMITATES DEMOLITION
0:38:39 > 0:38:41..crashing down.
0:38:41 > 0:38:43Poor Billy.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45Poor Alice didn't really have an easy time
0:38:45 > 0:38:47in Shieldinch from day one.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50If she wasn't drunk, she was trying her darnedest to get drunk
0:38:50 > 0:38:53and was also not very lucky in the love department.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56However, things started to look up for Alice and she fell in love
0:38:56 > 0:38:58with her old flame Mac.
0:38:58 > 0:39:03They set up home together and Deek finally accepts him as well
0:39:03 > 0:39:08and then we take on board two kind of stray children.
0:39:08 > 0:39:11But the happiness didn't last long.
0:39:11 > 0:39:16Mac betrayed Alice big-style, having an affair with teenager Zoe.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20Zoe?
0:39:20 > 0:39:21You mean our Zoe?
0:39:23 > 0:39:26No. No, tell me that's not true.
0:39:26 > 0:39:28We fell in love.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33You're having an affair with her?
0:39:33 > 0:39:38We're...we're going to go away for a while. Make things easy.
0:39:38 > 0:39:39It really breaks Alice's heart
0:39:39 > 0:39:43to find out that's he's basically gone off
0:39:43 > 0:39:46and been has been having an affair with this 16-year-old girl
0:39:46 > 0:39:48that Alice is really like a mother to.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- How could you do this to me?! - Stop it.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57- How could you do this to me?! - Don't do this!
0:39:59 > 0:40:03Ultimately, Alice could only find solace in her old friend the booze,
0:40:03 > 0:40:05goes off the rails
0:40:05 > 0:40:08and get's off with her son's best pal, Shell Suit Bob.
0:40:10 > 0:40:14The ardent steamy affairs in Shieldinch were not just restricted
0:40:14 > 0:40:15to a heterosexual nature.
0:40:15 > 0:40:19Yes, Scott, who only ever wished for a soulmate and dream boyfriend
0:40:19 > 0:40:22learnt the hard way - it's not all chocolates and roses.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Early on there was Dan - Sanjay from EastEnders,
0:40:24 > 0:40:27- for those who are interested. - I'll give you "open relationship"!
0:40:27 > 0:40:30"Open relationship" is another language to Scott,
0:40:30 > 0:40:32and Dan soon got short shrift.
0:40:33 > 0:40:37Then Scarlett's very own wayward son Stevie couldn't make up his mind
0:40:37 > 0:40:40if he wanted to snog Scott or lamp him one.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43But Scott did eventually find true love.
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Just one problem - he was married.
0:40:46 > 0:40:50Oh, and he was a detective high up in the police. And he had two kids.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54One thing Shieldinch has witnessed its fair share of -
0:40:54 > 0:40:56shocking murders.
0:40:56 > 0:41:00Eddie was preparing a special event for boyfriend Scott
0:41:00 > 0:41:02when bang, he was no more.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15And little did poor Scott know that Eddie was about to propose to him.
0:41:15 > 0:41:19Shieldinch just missed out on its very first civil partnership.
0:41:22 > 0:41:23This is yours, Scott.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28Eddie wanted you to have it.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32'She produces the ring that she had in her handbag, the ring that Eddie
0:41:32 > 0:41:35'was going to propose with that Scott didn't know about.
0:41:35 > 0:41:38'And that was really interesting to play'
0:41:38 > 0:41:41because she could've withheld that, she could've kept hold if it.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44But she had reached a point where that would have hurt her more.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48She wants Scott to know just how much Eddie loved him.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52Who killed Eddie Hunter?
0:41:52 > 0:41:55Well, I think Lenny Murdoch was definitely involved.
0:41:55 > 0:41:57He might not have pulled the trigger,
0:41:57 > 0:42:02but he was absolutely behind the shooting of Eddie, in my mind.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I can't prove it, obviously, but I have a feeling.
0:42:07 > 0:42:12One murder that will go down in the annals of Shieldinch's most dramatic
0:42:12 > 0:42:15was the stabbing of Dr Marcus McKenzie by Heather Bellshaw.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17No!
0:42:17 > 0:42:21Joanne wanted to get revenge for her mother's rape, made a mad dash
0:42:21 > 0:42:23for the hospital
0:42:23 > 0:42:25and was met with a scene of devastation.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28She runs in after Heather's left and...
0:42:30 > 0:42:34..it was quite funny to film, you pull out the knife...
0:42:34 > 0:42:38It was always ambiguous who did kill Marcus,
0:42:38 > 0:42:40because Heather stabs him
0:42:40 > 0:42:44and Joanne pulls it out and pulling it out obviously killed him.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50Heather stabbed him,
0:42:50 > 0:42:53but Joanne pulled it out, which actually killed him,
0:42:53 > 0:42:56so Joanne Rossi killed Marcus McKenzie, not Heather Bellshaw.
0:42:56 > 0:43:01So I'm actually, Joanne is down as killing Marcus McKenzie,
0:43:01 > 0:43:03and good on her.
0:43:04 > 0:43:08Cats have nine lives. Archie Buchanan had just the two.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Sleekit Archie was planning to leave Gina
0:43:10 > 0:43:13and flee the country with nefarious Nieve Corrigan.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Liz found the letters and the passports
0:43:15 > 0:43:17and a massive confrontation ensued.
0:43:17 > 0:43:21- Gina! Where is Gina?!- Shut up!
0:43:21 > 0:43:23- Gina!- Shut up!
0:43:23 > 0:43:27Now listen. This is what's going to happen.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29I am leaving now
0:43:29 > 0:43:32and you are not going to stop me. All right?
0:43:32 > 0:43:35Gina came hurtling down the stairs in her dressing gown.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38And they confront Archie. And...
0:43:38 > 0:43:41being Archie, he basically just thinks, "They're in my way."
0:43:41 > 0:43:44- I'm warning you!- Archie, no!
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Shut up, just shut up!
0:43:48 > 0:43:51- Get out my way. - No, you're not leaving me.
0:43:51 > 0:43:56Liz, in a moment of panic, rushed to the mantelpiece in the hall
0:43:56 > 0:44:01and picked up the urn which held her dead husband's ashes
0:44:01 > 0:44:03and smashed it over Archie.
0:44:03 > 0:44:05Let me go!
0:44:05 > 0:44:08Stop it! Stop it, Richard!
0:44:10 > 0:44:11SHE CHOKES
0:44:14 > 0:44:18- You stupid old bitch. - Get away from me!
0:44:20 > 0:44:22Basically, Liz saves Gina's life
0:44:22 > 0:44:26and Archie falls on the grate
0:44:26 > 0:44:30and the next thing, we've got dead Archie lying
0:44:30 > 0:44:32with his head in the fireplace
0:44:32 > 0:44:36with a big bruise from the urn and two women going, "Oh, my God, what have we done?"
0:44:36 > 0:44:40What to do, what on earth to do?
0:44:40 > 0:44:43And what did they do? Gina phoned her big sister Eileen.
0:44:44 > 0:44:46Eileen didn't want to help at all,
0:44:46 > 0:44:49but your sister's in crisis, what else can you do?
0:44:49 > 0:44:52And then Gina, Eileen and Liz had blood on their hands
0:44:52 > 0:44:54or so they thought, when they all colluded in a plan
0:44:54 > 0:44:57to tip Archie's body off a remote country cliff.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59High drama indeed!
0:45:00 > 0:45:03No!
0:45:03 > 0:45:04Liz, stop it, calm down!
0:45:07 > 0:45:08Stop it!
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Liz was a gibbering wreck by this time.
0:45:10 > 0:45:13We didn't cope well with it, we were hysterical, it was the full,
0:45:13 > 0:45:17the full tears, the full snotters, pushing him off that cliff.
0:45:17 > 0:45:18Goodbye, Archie.
0:45:31 > 0:45:36Just as the credits were about to roll,
0:45:36 > 0:45:38you saw his hand move.
0:45:38 > 0:45:41And the fingers curled on the stones.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47IMITATES DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:45:47 > 0:45:50Time for that second life of Archie's to come into play.
0:45:50 > 0:45:54The Adams were having a lovely Christmas dinner in a posh country house,
0:45:54 > 0:45:57Jimmy was just about to propose to Scarlett
0:45:57 > 0:46:00when something unusual caught Scarlett's eye.
0:46:00 > 0:46:01Archie?!
0:46:01 > 0:46:04# And so you're back from outer space ... #
0:46:04 > 0:46:09Yes, Archie had reappeared as an affable waiter called Douglas.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13The bump off the cliff had erased his mind completely...apparently.
0:46:15 > 0:46:20My favourite storyline was the whole mad Archie storyline
0:46:20 > 0:46:24when he disappeared and came back as somebody really lovely,
0:46:24 > 0:46:26and then he was Archie again.
0:46:26 > 0:46:28I thought that was really, really well done.
0:46:28 > 0:46:32Archie - sorry, Douglas - returned to Shieldinch one Christmas,
0:46:32 > 0:46:35giving his mother the shock of her life.
0:46:35 > 0:46:38MUSIC: "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor
0:46:40 > 0:46:44As a device for reintroducing Archie back into the show,
0:46:44 > 0:46:46it was a very clever one, I think.
0:46:46 > 0:46:50Totally implausible, but nonetheless very clever.
0:46:50 > 0:46:53Douglas even asked Gina to marry him...again.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57So basically here he was, the same bloke but just nicer,
0:46:57 > 0:46:59you know, just a better version.
0:46:59 > 0:47:03I just wanted it to work out for Gina, I didn't want him to turn back into Archie.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07But, of course, unlucky in love as always she is, it was very sad,
0:47:07 > 0:47:10so that was a cracking storyline, that really had me hooked.
0:47:10 > 0:47:15However, in true soap fashion, after seeing his old lawyer colleague
0:47:15 > 0:47:20Fi Kydd, Douglas/Archie's memory came flooding back
0:47:20 > 0:47:22and the mask slipped.
0:47:22 > 0:47:27The old, mean Archie Buchanan was back.
0:47:27 > 0:47:31There's a moment when you saw Archie coming back behind the eyes.
0:47:33 > 0:47:34It's you.
0:47:35 > 0:47:38You've got your memory back.
0:47:38 > 0:47:39You're...
0:47:40 > 0:47:42..Archie again.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45There's no way I believed from the beginning that he was ever Douglas.
0:47:45 > 0:47:48I thought, "He knows exactly what he's doing." He played a good game.
0:47:48 > 0:47:52He was convincing and he managed to convince Gina and everyone else,
0:47:52 > 0:47:54but you knew at some point the mask was going to slip.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57Was it Douglas with amnesia?
0:47:57 > 0:47:58I would say it was...
0:47:59 > 0:48:02..80% Archie and 20% Douglas.
0:48:02 > 0:48:05Archie fell into the Shieldinch underworld,
0:48:05 > 0:48:09and this time it was renowned bad boy Lenny Murdoch who sent out
0:48:09 > 0:48:11one of his henchmen and had Archie killed.
0:48:11 > 0:48:13Properly, this time.
0:48:13 > 0:48:17In fact, many's a person has died at the hands of Lenny,
0:48:17 > 0:48:22directly or otherwise, but just how many people has he murdered?
0:48:22 > 0:48:26Just shut up! You don't even know what you're talking about!
0:48:26 > 0:48:30How many deaths has Lenny been involved in? Absolutely none.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32MUSIC: "Man's World"
0:48:32 > 0:48:35There have been so many murders in Shieldinch that he's been
0:48:35 > 0:48:37connected to. He's got to be on the Most Wanted list.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40He's a cold-blooded killer, but he's ours.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43He's our cold-blooded killer.
0:48:43 > 0:48:47And his lovely wife Lydia, played by Jacqueline Leonard,
0:48:47 > 0:48:50turned a blind eye to all of it, as long as the bling
0:48:50 > 0:48:52and the hard cash was coming in.
0:48:52 > 0:48:56A bit of advice, don't ever ask her where the money comes from
0:48:56 > 0:48:58or what Lenny actually gets up to.
0:48:58 > 0:49:02He provides for this family. And you. That's what he gets up to.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05She likes the nice things in life
0:49:05 > 0:49:11and she did turn a blind eye to a lot of his sort of dealings,
0:49:11 > 0:49:15but I don't think she realised he actually murdered so many people.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18I don't think she could quite have quite coped with that,
0:49:18 > 0:49:22so she just sort of never spoke about it, really.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26I am just a hard-working businessman trying to earn an honest crust.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29Mm. And I'm Donatella Versace(!)
0:49:29 > 0:49:30If you say so, darling.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35This old school gangster really does rule the roost in Shieldinch,
0:49:35 > 0:49:39but will he ever learn the difference between right and wrong?
0:49:39 > 0:49:42You wouldn't know what was right if it slapped you in the face!
0:49:42 > 0:49:45- I know one thing...- So will he ever change his ways and become part
0:49:45 > 0:49:49- of the Shieldinch community? - 'I think he feels he's part'
0:49:49 > 0:49:52of the community, but I don't think they feel he's part of the community
0:49:52 > 0:49:56and they're quite happy to have him at arm's length at all times,
0:49:56 > 0:49:58which is probably wise.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02In fact, you could argue that Shieldinch really is
0:50:02 > 0:50:05- quite a dangerous place. - If you lived in Shieldinch,
0:50:05 > 0:50:07you'd put your house up for sale and get out of there.
0:50:07 > 0:50:12It's the most dangerous place. They say somewhere like Johannesburg is the most dangerous place -
0:50:12 > 0:50:14no, you've never been to Shieldinch.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18Just sometimes in drama, good people have to die.
0:50:18 > 0:50:22It pulls at the heartstrings of the empathetic audience
0:50:22 > 0:50:24and makes the ratings soar.
0:50:24 > 0:50:27But some deaths are more spectacular than others.
0:50:27 > 0:50:30Lenny's son Ewan fell to his death
0:50:30 > 0:50:33from the scaffolding on Montego Street. OK, here's the background.
0:50:33 > 0:50:35Lenny had taken his own son hostage.
0:50:35 > 0:50:39Oh, don't ask, this family really did need some serious counselling.
0:50:39 > 0:50:43But before he died, Ewan told Lenny some harsh home truths
0:50:43 > 0:50:46which made Lydia's hair curl.
0:50:46 > 0:50:51You can't turn me in. I'm the father of our child. Your family!
0:50:51 > 0:50:53- Didn't save my mum, though, did it? - Shut up!
0:50:53 > 0:50:57- He killed her.- Shut up, I said! - And he'll do the same to you.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59He'll dump your body in the boat yard just like he dumped hers,
0:50:59 > 0:51:03just like he dumped Archie's. How many more have you got in there, Dad?
0:51:03 > 0:51:06From Lenny's point of view, he just feels totally betrayed
0:51:06 > 0:51:09by his son and the rest of his family,
0:51:09 > 0:51:12and Ewan climbed out onto the balcony...
0:51:12 > 0:51:16because Lenny was threatening him and then we they realised
0:51:16 > 0:51:20it's went too far, both Lenny and Lydia try to talk him back in.
0:51:22 > 0:51:23I'm sorry.
0:51:30 > 0:51:32- No!- Ewan!
0:51:35 > 0:51:37So the big question remains.
0:51:37 > 0:51:40Was he pushed and did Malcolm see something he shouldn't?
0:51:40 > 0:51:44Or was it just an accidental fall after all?
0:51:44 > 0:51:49Either way, Lydia made sure that Lenny took the rap for it.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52Then, that's when Lydia just realises
0:51:52 > 0:51:56he has to take responsibility for this, and she goes on
0:51:56 > 0:52:02to blame Lenny for actually pushing Ewan, which he actually didn't.
0:52:02 > 0:52:06Lydia told a big lie which put Lenny behind bars.
0:52:07 > 0:52:10Lenny attended the funeral of his own son with handcuffs on.
0:52:10 > 0:52:14For the first time ever, audiences witnessed a very emotional side
0:52:14 > 0:52:16to Lenny Murdoch.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23That should be me lying in there, not you. God....
0:52:23 > 0:52:28That whole emotion just came out in that speech.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30Actually I'm getting a little bit choked thinking about it now,
0:52:30 > 0:52:34cos, of course, we all left then, the whole family.
0:52:34 > 0:52:37That was our story to go, really.
0:52:37 > 0:52:39Stunts like falling from heights,
0:52:39 > 0:52:41car crashes and explosions have been embraced
0:52:41 > 0:52:43by the River City production team and crew
0:52:43 > 0:52:47over the years, and still now continue to provide pivotal moments
0:52:47 > 0:52:49in the drama's throughline.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52Recently, the team have been filming an incident involving
0:52:52 > 0:52:53the character Deek Henderson,
0:52:53 > 0:52:57culminating in a spectacular road accident.
0:52:58 > 0:53:01Will! Hey!
0:53:01 > 0:53:02TYRES SCREECH
0:53:08 > 0:53:11And to make the tenth anniversary go with a bang,
0:53:11 > 0:53:15an impressive explosion in the Tall Ship Bar.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19These current stunts are just following a long line
0:53:19 > 0:53:23of River City casualties, catastrophes and calamities.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27But some of you River City buffs might remember Moira Henderson,
0:53:27 > 0:53:30George's first wife, exploding in a horrible car crash
0:53:30 > 0:53:32at the bottom of Montego Street.
0:53:32 > 0:53:35This was River City's first ever stunt.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45Moira!
0:53:45 > 0:53:49Who can forget Roisin and Raymond's mad dash from the exploding caravan
0:53:49 > 0:53:52with her daughter Alana's drunk, evil father inside it?
0:53:54 > 0:53:58And Scarlett's very own Bubba dramatically falling
0:53:58 > 0:54:00into the River Clyde.
0:54:00 > 0:54:05Now, faces come and faces go, and when your number's up in Shieldinch,
0:54:05 > 0:54:08it's time to go, through a variety of ways.
0:54:08 > 0:54:12Joanne Rossi favoured the more conventional way, leaving with Luca
0:54:12 > 0:54:14in a taxi round the corner.
0:54:14 > 0:54:18That girl had had her fill of Shieldinch...
0:54:18 > 0:54:22but was to come back years later with a different face.
0:54:22 > 0:54:24Joanne?
0:54:25 > 0:54:27Hello, Mum.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30And then Joanne came back and looked better.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34Now, Kelly-Marie has been back and forward like a yo-yo.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36Oh, look who's back!
0:54:36 > 0:54:39I'm leaving. Today.
0:54:39 > 0:54:41Yes, after a fling with a footballer,
0:54:41 > 0:54:44she left for a second time with the local priest.
0:54:44 > 0:54:47She then ditched the man of the cloth
0:54:47 > 0:54:49and, after a short liaison with Ewan Murdoch,
0:54:49 > 0:54:51left for third time - again in a taxi.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54Now she's back, this time with a son in tow.
0:54:54 > 0:54:58Yep, that's right, Scarlett's and Lenny Murdoch's grandson.
0:54:58 > 0:55:01With such a strong bond and friendship,
0:55:01 > 0:55:04it was only fitting that Ruth and Scott would leave together
0:55:04 > 0:55:07to be a happy family of sorts, but without Gina's blessing.
0:55:08 > 0:55:11Just at the last minute, Gina comes running through
0:55:11 > 0:55:17and says a big farewell and everything's OK, it's OK to go.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19They'd gone through the gamut of emotions
0:55:19 > 0:55:22with just a litany of events, and I think
0:55:22 > 0:55:24it was maybe time to close the chapter
0:55:24 > 0:55:26and open a new chapter somewhere else.
0:55:26 > 0:55:30Oh, poor Gina. Don't worry, we're doing just fine in lovely Yorkshire.
0:55:31 > 0:55:35But do you know what, looking back over the ten years,
0:55:35 > 0:55:37it's not always been doom and gloom in Shieldinch.
0:55:37 > 0:55:40You dancer!
0:55:40 > 0:55:44Roisin's joy was palpable for all to see when she won the Lottery,
0:55:44 > 0:55:47lost the ticket, then found it again.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49The whole cast camped it up in the Shieldinch pantomime.
0:55:49 > 0:55:53Johnny Beattie, of course, played a blinder as the dame.
0:55:53 > 0:55:54Hello, boys and girls!
0:55:54 > 0:55:57- ALL:- Hello!
0:55:57 > 0:55:58That's more like it.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03And Scarlett got quite the eyeful on her hen night
0:56:03 > 0:56:04with a sexy male stripper,
0:56:04 > 0:56:06# Celebrate good times... #
0:56:06 > 0:56:08And what about Liz's hen night?
0:56:08 > 0:56:12When those Shieldinch girls get together, look out!
0:56:14 > 0:56:18The Adams-Mullins had quite the penchant for dressing up at Christmas,
0:56:18 > 0:56:20or any other time of year, for that matter.
0:56:20 > 0:56:24And Raymond made a sterling effort to emulate his idol.
0:56:24 > 0:56:27Shame the real Elvis didn't make it to Shieldinch,
0:56:27 > 0:56:29but a few other famous faces did.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32And so the going's on of the good people of Shieldinch
0:56:32 > 0:56:35continue to enthral the Scottish nation.
0:56:35 > 0:56:39Plenty of fresh new faces have taken up the challenge
0:56:39 > 0:56:42of some strong, innovative story lines.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45Today's audiences follow the antiques of Robbie the hairdresser,
0:56:45 > 0:56:48a harmless soul with a zest for life
0:56:48 > 0:56:51and a boyfriend with a rather heavy hand.
0:56:51 > 0:56:56Big Bob, Scarlett's brother, and his battle against his weight...
0:56:56 > 0:56:58and a bossy maw.
0:56:58 > 0:57:03Wide boy Gabriel and his on/off affair with his sister-in-law Leyla,
0:57:03 > 0:57:05who is a little bit too fond of the booze.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10Lots of doctors who come and go like the buses.
0:57:10 > 0:57:14There's never one when you need one - they all come at once.
0:57:14 > 0:57:18Of course, there's still some of the show's original characters in there too.
0:57:18 > 0:57:22Gina and Eileen fall in and out with each other all the time,
0:57:22 > 0:57:26but they never forget their sisterly bond, and blood's thicker than water.
0:57:27 > 0:57:31Eileen's back with the devil she knows in Raymond
0:57:31 > 0:57:34and living above the pub...for now.
0:57:34 > 0:57:39Scarlett continues to reign over the firm, keeping Jimmy, Bubba
0:57:39 > 0:57:41and the rest of them in line.
0:57:41 > 0:57:44A setback with cancer has given her a renewed lust for life
0:57:44 > 0:57:47and mischief - watch this space.
0:57:48 > 0:57:52And let's not forget the chilling legend that is Lenny Murdoch.
0:57:52 > 0:57:55Will he add any more to the death toll? Let's hope not.
0:57:57 > 0:58:02Their motto - the show must go on, and so it does, week in, week out.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04One of the hardest-working crews in Scotland
0:58:04 > 0:58:08and a cast of talented, dedicated actors all working together
0:58:08 > 0:58:12for our viewing pleasure and giving us our weekly dose
0:58:12 > 0:58:14of Shieldinch dramas.
0:58:19 > 0:58:23Happy Birthday, River City - here's to the next ten years.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31Happy birthday, River City.
0:58:36 > 0:58:38Happy birthday, River City.
0:58:43 > 0:58:45Happy anniversary, River City.
0:58:49 > 0:58:51Happy birthday, River City!
0:58:54 > 0:58:57Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd